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August 28th, 2008The triumph of positivism, from World History And The Eonic Effect
| 11 hours ago by nemo A passage from World History And The Eonic Effect The Triumph Of Positivism. The nineteenth century produced an immense proliferation of the methods of scientific reductionism in the biological and social sciences, as the onset of … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Horgan and the ‘end of science’
| 11 hours ago by nemo Looking Back at the End of Science. More than a decade after its original publication, does the prophecy of a controversial book still ring true? By John Horgan. Since we have invoked the ‘end of science’ in the previous post, … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 9 hours ago by Stephen P. Smith See:. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/l31evolution.html. Folks that can’t get evolution right can hardly complain about not being able to teach their false views on evolution! Darwiniana: blogzone - http://darwiniana.com/blogzone |
Neo-Darwinism is dead & a deadly weapon against Darwinists
| 12 hours ago by nemo Counterpunch reprints Newman interview. The question of evolution has reached a turning point, and the Alternberg conference, and now a public statement by Stuart Newman, has produced a public whisper of this transition. … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 12 hours ago by nemo Two new posts at Blogzone. [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Obama answers Science Debate 2008 questions
| 13 hours ago by nemo The Story. In November, 2007, a small group of six citizens - two screenwriters, a physicist, a marine biologist, a philosopher and a science journalist - began working to restore science and innovation to America’s political dialogue. … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Newman evolution story makes it to Counterpunch
| 16 hours ago by nemo Challenging the Evolution Industry Rethinking Evolution with Stuart Newman By SUZAN MAZUR. It’s not surprising that Stuart Newman was one of the “Altenberg 16″ scientists who kicked off a reformulation of the theory of evolution, (more… … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Darwinists protest ‘Darwinism’
| 16 hours ago by nemo Is “Darwinism” a term only used by creationists? [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind
| 16 hours ago by nemo Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind by Scientific American From Dawkins site http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=intelligence-evolved (more…) [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
3 Ways to Fix US Science Education17 hours ago by nemo
MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix US Science Education by Popular Mechanics From Dawkins site http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4279828.html (more…) [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] …
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| 17 hours ago by nemo Is Sarah Palin A Creationist? Is McCain’s choice for vice president a creationist? The record offers worrisome evidence that the first woman to make it onto a Republican presidential ticket holds to this backward and wholly unscientific … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 hours ago by nemo Common Dreams Published on Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Inter Press Service Treaty Languishes on State Terror by Haider Rizvi (more…) [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 hours ago by nemo RG mail www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9983 New Spy Software Coming On-Line: “Surveillance in a Box” Makes its Debut By Tom Burghardt. Global Research, August 29, 2008 Antifascist Calling… - 2008-08-28 (more…) … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Zinn: Science, The Public, and Social Change
| 17 hours ago by nemo sciftp mail http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18617 The Citizens Among Us. Science, The Public, and Social Change (more…) [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Challenge to extinction theory
| 17 hours ago by nemo gnxp New research deals a blow to the hypothesis that a decrease in atmospheric oxygen contributed to a mass extinction 250 million years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02obsoxy.html … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 hours ago by nemo gnxp The old adage “sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you”, simply is not true, according to researchers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7587780.stm. [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 hours ago by nemo gnxp These emotions are a constant for the poverty-stricken. New ideas are emerging to combat the long-term effects. http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-poverty1-2008sep01,0,3159674.story … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 hours ago by nemo Alternet mail 5 Steps to an Environmental Revolution By Bill Vitek, Prairie Writers Circle. Posted August 27, 2008. Efficiency tweaks won’t save us. Even if every car in the world were a hybrid, growing demand would dwarf savings. … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 17 hours ago by nemo Alternet mail It’s Pretty Clear That Europe Is Using ‘Trade’ Deals to Steal Food from Poor Countries By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. Posted August 28, 2008. A new wave of food colonialism is taking food from the mouths of the poor. … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the US17 hours ago by nemo
RG mail Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the US By JOHN MARKOFF Times SAN FRANCISCO — The era of the American Internet is ending. Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the …
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| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo 3919 1.89% http://darwiniana.com/2006/01/31/confusion-over-axial-age/ 1993 0.96% http://darwiniana.com/2006/10/23/marilynne-robinson-on-dawkins/ 885 0.43% http://darwiniana.com/blogzone/ … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Comment on Will Dalai Lama return to Tibet? by Lobsang
| 21 hours ago by Lobsang If the Dalai Lama did return to Tibet imagine what would happen to Shugden practitioners in Tibet. He would probably have them crucified. http://www.wisdombuddhadorjeshugden.org. Comments for Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Comment on Will Dalai Lama return to Tibet? by goldenmala
| 21 hours ago by goldenmala Meindert Gorter’s article explains that the Dalai Lama is not really just a simple monk, like he claims to be. He’sa political leader. He has ban the Buddhist deity Dorje Shugden whom more than 4 million Buddhist worldwide rely upon. … Comments for Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 21 hours ago by Stephen P. Smith See:. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CVN_PALIN_EVANGELICALS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME. Article reads: As a politician, Palin has sided with the majority evangelical view in opposing gay marriage and expressing a desire to see … Darwiniana: blogzone - http://darwiniana.com/blogzone |
Evolution incompatible with scripture
| 21 hours ago by Stephen P. Smith See:. http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080830/FEAT04/808300391. Ballinger writes: Does life come from non-life? People used to believe in a theory called spontaneous generation. They thought that flies came … Darwiniana: blogzone - http://darwiniana.com/blogzone |
Comment on Slavoj Zizek and Hegelian brain damage by suraj sharma
| 30 Aug 2008 by suraj sharma Zizek isn’t exactly an unrepentant semi-totalitarian, he’s just an unrepentant totalitarian. Comments for Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
The Eonic Effect and The Great Explosion
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Selection from World History And The Eonic Effect. The Great Explosion. Man’s emergence from the Paleolithic is both his entrance into history and his attempt to discover the meaning of that transition. The search for the significance … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Beyond neo-darwinism: Stuart Newman interview links
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Here are the links to the Newman interview, which have been popular reads here: Video of Newman interview. Text of Newman interview. [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Chopra interview, plus turtle fossils, and ‘intelligence not strictly human’. [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Chopra interview29 Aug 2008 by Stephen P. Smith
See:. http://www.sacbee.com/107/story/1191417.html. Chopra says: I’m an explorer of spirituality. Spirituality is inclusive, unifying. It does not contradict what we know of evolution. … If you take a look at the world, most fervent …
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More nonsense on altruism gene
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Nature and the Altruism Gene. Capitalism, Darwinism and democracy share not only a reliance on competitive self-interest but a presumption that self-interest works - or can be made to work - for the common good. … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Molecules Evolution Can’t Explain! August 28, 2008 04:30 PM EST. Millions of high school and college biology textbooks imply that Stanley Miller, in the 1950’s, showed that life could arise by chance. Nothing could be further from the … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Fish loses “armour” to survive
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Fish loses “armour” to survive in freshwater lake Britain News.Net Friday 29th August, 2008 (ANI). Ottawa, August 29 : A new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada (UBC) has indicated that by shedding its … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Genesis and the origin of the Origin of the species The argument that God exists based on design figures nowhere in the Hebrew Bible. [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
‘Non-random’ evolution pushed deceptively
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo “Random” Samples of Media and Textbook Descriptions of Darwinian Evolution In his Autobiography, Charles Darwin stated, “There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Obama on ’social darwinism’ of GOP
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Obamas Big Night in Denver. Obama hit his strongest notes when criticizing the social Darwinism of the GOP, although evangelicals would have liked it if he used that phrase. [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Palin’s dangerous views on science education By Ed Brayton 8/29/08 12:57 PM One of the first things that stands out to me about the choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be McCain’s running mate is the fact that Palin is an advocate of … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
Will Dalai Lama return to Tibet?
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo Will the Dalai Lama return to Tibet? Meindert Gorter gives his views on religious freedom in China today and the prospects of the Dalai Lama return from exile. [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
| 29 Aug 2008 by nemo The Parasite That Reveals Good News From Africa by Johann Hari. And now for the great news - from Africa. Yes, I know that seems like a perverse opener, with Robert Mugabe perpetuating his oozing Alzheimocracy, a looming famine in … Darwiniana - http://darwiniana.com |
SW inbox29 Aug 2008 by nemo
Report: Elizabeth Schulte ICE BRINGS PANIC TO A MISSISSIPPI TOWN (more…) [Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google]
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